These thirteen pieces for open ensemble, written across a period of fifty years, explore flexible areas of music – in ensemble type and size, in structure and form, and in graphic notation. This anthology was created to give new music ensembles at schools a flexible, easy way to explore new types of music.

ANYONE CAN PLAY is thus divided into three sections: Text-Based Scores, Stave-Based Scores, and Graphic Scores.

This anthology was curated by Jody Rockmaker.

Contents:

Text-Based – Philip Carlsen: Tu(r)ning (2013), for any number of improvisers – Richard Cameron-Wolfe: En Garde/Detente (2022), for any two musicians

Stave-Based – Robert Carl: Changing My Spots (2005), for group improvisation – Marilyn Shrude: Trope (2007), for variable ensemble – Scott L. Miller: Admiration (2017), for instrument(s) and fixed-media electronics – Jody Rockmaker: Gestures (2018), for any four melodic instruments – Randall Snyder: Meditation for a Dark Age (2020), for any four instruments – Jody Rockmaker: Anyone Can Play! (2022), for any four melodic instruments

Graphic – Richard Moryl: Strobe (1972), for variable orchestra – Paul Martin Zonn: Yodeling in the Gully (1984), for at least three instruments – Matthew Welch: Symphony of Drones No. 2 (2002), for variable instrumentation – Peter Tod Lewis: ALCAZAR III (1972), for at least four instruments